Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Mirroring my old RPM CentOS6 REPO

Obviously, I lost the access to the repo when I left that company and, after 8 years working on RPMs, in my new position, we are not working on RPM packages anymore. Just in case, I made again all the pkgs in a new repo preserving versions. I don't know what strategy will have my last company in the future so I would like to preserve that work for the people who is using legacy or deprecated software without any other possible option to choose.

Bintray seems to have a good and free account. I made 256 CentOS6 packages again and the configuration steps for this mirror are easy:
Run the following to get a generated .repo file: